Sara Nics

I am a creative leader of people and projects. I'm driven by collaboration, curiosity, and the joy of making things that matter. 

Over the past 20 years, I’ve built a career in storytelling, production, and team leadership—guiding projects from concept to launch. I do my best work at the nexus of ingenious teams, helping talented people do their best work. 

Now, I’m looking for new opportunities to bring my experience, creativity, and collaborative spirit to new projects.

Most recently, as Vice President of Content at Pushkin Industries—home to Revisionist History, Heavyweight, Cautionary Tales, and more—I led all show production, shaped the network’s editorial voice, and spearheaded new show development, all while leading an extraordinary group of executive producers and editors.

Before that, I served as Executive Editor at Transmitter Media, where I supported all of our productions and championed the growth of the producers who made them. As part of the executive team, I helped guide both the company’s editorial vision and its creative culture. When it was acquired by Pushkin in 2022, I was central to integrating the two company cultures. 

Check out some shows that I edited

Further back, I was a founding producer and the assignment editor at the New Yorker Radio Hour, a coproduction of WNYC and The New Yorker. I worked with leaders from the magazine and WNYC to shape the tone, content and style of the program. 

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Earlier in my career, I worked as a producer, interviewer and fill-in host for To the Best of Our Knowledge, as the announcer for Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?, as a South Asia reporter and producer for Radio Netherlands Worldwide, as a chase producer for the Canadian Broadcasting  Corporation, as a host and news producer for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, and as a journalism trainer for the African Woman and Child Feature Service. 

Listen to some favorite pieces

I've taught Pulitzer Prize-winning writers how to make audio stories, reported from a sinking island at the height of a tropical storm, managed a team of reporters from East Africa, covered breaking news in South Asia, performed radio every week in front of a live audience, and produced stories about Antarctic explorers, art thieves, uncontacted tribes, wonder, ecstatic creativity, narrative self-concept, and a whole lot more.